Weekly Poem: Nick Flynn Reads 'haiku (failed)'

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Weekly Poem: Nick Flynn Reads 'haiku (failed)'

Nick Flynn is a poet, playwright and memoirist whose most recent book is "The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands" (2011, Graywolf Press), a collection of poems that are linked to his latest memoir, "The Ticking is the Bomb" (2010, W. W. Norton & Company). He teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. Read the poem here: http://to.pbs.org/xzXmRe